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Vinyl record grading

Hi

I’ve recently acquired several 50’s jazz records in below-average condition. I’m not interested in keeping them, because my jazz tastes are from mainly 70’s and up and my collection is mainly VG+ to M-

The record labels are also desirable such as Atlantic, Verve, Prestige and Fantasy.

After cleaning with ultrasonic machine (hand-made by me) they sounded as if they would grade at least VG being visually graded not more than G+. Even those that grade as G play great with very minimal surface noise.

Would you price it to the sound-testing or visual testing?

czarivey

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czarivey OP
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@noromance ,

Technically even between G ad VG+ should not be much difference. Logically, within between good and very good you should have good or very good experience listening to those, but Goldmine standard of grading is slightly different where rating G can show a lot of surface wear.

So rating G is typically "not so Good"; G+ -- slightly better than "not so Good" and VG is average wear condition...

 

czarivey OP
5,740 posts
 

I had records pulled out from the jacket sounding noisy. For example the original pretty famous and common double-album "Who's afraid of Monk". Had it sealed since long time ago, but once landed needle it started from cracking noise and had it through all of the records. 

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